Ebon's manga / #Martial Arts(14)

202 MC is the sole apprentice of a renowned spear sect, until the day he and his master are mysteriously murdered. When he wakes, he is in the body of a young boy in a demonic sect, set on revenge.... This was a good balance of goal-oriented ‘getting stronger’ and plot. I like that if you read carefully, you can start to figure out what’s going to happen, and what secrets people might be hiding. MC is very strong in a balanced and high-growth (rather than OP) sort of way. Looking forward to more!

3700 MC is in his third year in a martial arts sect but, despite his perseverance, he has fallen behind everyone else....that is, until he discovers a strange artifact. Then he begins to grow. This is super interesting, and quite fast-paced. MC keeps growing, and is generally intense and clever/scheming with a strong character. It took me forever to realize it was harem - and it is - but it’s not so much you can’t read past it, and there are strong female characters too....hope it continues! Plot markers: 47 - Yang Kai’s first major (unusually strong) breakthrough 82 - Yang Kai meets ‘old demon’ (then 1st cultivation w/ Su Yan) 95 - Yang Kai’s impromptu, non-martial journey 128 - Yang Kai returns w/ his wings, lotus, treasures, etc. (meets Dong, family status announced) 141 - Yang Kai’s trip with his sect master begins (w/ controlling-insects and yang attr. resistance...) 200 - medicine king’s valley arc begins 228 - back at hihp, after demon lord attack, then lady Qiu attack (old demon obtains a body) 243 - Yang Kai sets out w/ beguiling demon queen (having met a few days prior) 262 - Yank Kai enters the ghost-filled ravine w/ disciples of various sects 295 - Yang Kai revealed as a Yang family young lord 359 - Yang family inheritance war begins 421 - old demon and others begin to coalesce around Yang Kai (also 385) 452 - High Heaven Pavilion members are located far from War city 505 - the grand masters step in to help the younger generation stop Yang Kai 575 - Yang Kai returns to capital after presumed dead (then travels to the higher realm) 610 - enter the coffin carrying man & Yank Kai finds himself in the demon realm 630 - Yang Kai reveals his demon transformation to the demons of the small world 684 - Yang Kai returns from the lotus blooming event (alchemist-related) 722 - first meeting with the monster race (as the holy land’s grandmaster) 784 - Yang Kai discovers the void corridor back home to his original realm 836 - blood bone race falls, Yang Kai breaks through after the battle (saint realm?) 857 - Yang Kai finds himself trapped in a rich, smaller subsidiary realm with both forces 899 - escape from the subsidiary realm, Yang Kai journeys to Water Moon Star w/ friend 917 - Yang Kai’s ship ripped apart while fleeing water moon star; all presumed dead 956 - Yang Kai succeeds in refining a pill with pill clouds (to save his soul-chained partner) ... 1366 - Yang Kai returns to the Tong Yuan realm 1396 - Su Yan is spotted, yet to meet Yang Kai (who is fleeing a star master who wants his items) 1426 - Yang Kai becomes the star master of Shadowed Star thanks to Yang Yan 1449 - arrives on Azure Tree Star (Sword Union), enters the Severed World (w/ SU, Yue Yue, etc.) 1488 - arrives in Tong Yuan realm with Supreme Elder of HH sect (removes Spirit Devouring sect) 1500 - arrives on Purple Heaven Star, Purple Star City (to steal emperor token) 1532 - arrives on Heng Luo Chamber of Commerce’s Water Moon Star, saves Yue Yue’s mother 1548 - Yang Kai interlude w/ all four girls, then entering Star Boundary (wider world) with seniors 1579 - escape from Blue Feather Sect, finally into the general populous in Star Boundary … 2578 - Yang Kai travels to the higher realm to gather the five elements 2684 - first encounter with the World Tree in a sub-universe of the Great Ruins Boundary 2821 - Yang Kai enters Yin Yang Heaven’s small source world (after marriage competition) … 3033 - Yang Kai enters the ink territory (No-Return Pass) to seal the void corridor 3111 - Yang Kai returns to ink clan (disguised) to hunt down the inked artifact refiner 3588 - Yang Kai reached ninth rank open heaven realm 3624 - Yang Kai (believed to be trapped in the universe furnace) returns

MC was a demonic master of martial arts, until he was betrayed and killed. Then he awakens in the modern world as a teenager. Good. MC is strong, competent, and reasonably intelligent, but struggles with the tendency of demonic practitioners to go overboard in fights / on revenge, which adds a bit of interest. Reminds me of Martial Peak a bit in how he interacts with those around him, but with some great humor. I really enjoyed this one, and am looking forward to more!

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